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Open Yale Courses records full semester lectures — with transcripts, MP3 audio and MP4 video downloads for every single session.

19 courses here418 hours of teaching476 lectures & chapters50+ in their full catalog

Every Yale course

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YaleIntroductory

Financial Markets

How markets actually work — taught by a Nobel laureate who predicted two crashes.

31h26 lec
Video course
YaleIntermediate

Game Theory

Strategic thinking, taught with wit and midterms played as games.

24h24 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Freshman Organic Chemistry I

Organic chemistry as ideas, not flashcards — Yale's famous rethinking.

30h37 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Introduction to Ancient Greek History

The rise and fall of classical Greece — from a master historian.

29h24 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Fundamentals of Physics I

Newtonian mechanics from a physicist audiences love.

25h20 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Death

The most famous philosophy course on the internet.

24h26 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Introduction to Theory of Literature

Derrida, Foucault, and the rest — finally made comprehensible.

22h26 lec
Video course
YaleIntermediate

Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics

Dark matter, exoplanets, and black holes — taught through live debates.

21h29 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Introduction to the New Testament

The New Testament as literature and history — Yale's famously engaging close study.

21h26 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Introduction to Psychology

The mind, taught by one of its best explainers.

20h20 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature

Philosophy, psychology, and law in one course about being human.

20h26 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Foundations of Modern Social Theory

Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Freud — the toolkit of social thought.

20h25 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering

Where engineering meets the body — implants, imaging, and drug delivery.

20h25 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Listening to Western Music

How to hear what composers are actually doing.

19h23 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

European Civilization, 1648–1945

Three centuries of Europe, told by a storyteller at full gallop.

19h24 lec
Video course
YaleIntermediate

Milton

Paradise Lost, line by line — Yale's celebrated close reading of Milton.

19h24 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society

Tudors, civil war, and ordinary lives — England's turbulent birth into modernity.

19h25 lec
Video course
YaleIntroductory

Introduction to Political Philosophy

Machiavelli to Marx — who should rule, and why anyone gets to.

18h24 lec
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YaleIntroductory

The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000

How Europe became Europe — Paul Freedman's irresistible history of late antiquity.

17h22 lec